Food Con Jobs Plenty of large food producers have paid for research that leads to some questionable results. The science is valid, the data is corrected accurately, but they come to conclusions that don’t seem to make sense. This is not too different from corporations lobbying to make it easier to make a […]
Hidden Mistakes
Roman Persuasion There is a common technique in the art of rhetoric that goes back to the Roman Empire. You oscillate between an idea that is true, and an idea that sounds true. So long as the true sounding idea is sandwiched between two true ideas it will usually go undetected. One […]
Math Horse
Subconscious Arithmetic Once there was a horse that could do basic arithmetic. He attracted a lot of attention from locals and media. Then the scientists came to study this. Hypnotic Words Unimportant https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr13Loop.mp4 An interesting double blind study was done on hypnotists, and hypnotic scripts. The gathered the best hypnotic scripts […]
Telepathic Mental Momentum
Up And Down Hills I used to do a lot of bike riding. Once I had this messed up bike. It was really hard to get going. Impulse Buy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr12Loop.mp4 I bought a forearm workout device. It was a ball inside a ball. You had to get the inside ball […]
Scarcity Pizza
Pizza Shop I used to have this job in college at a pizza shop. There was an old retired guy working, and he loved it when tons of customers would come in and we’d be slammed. There’s a theory that we subconsciously use smell to qualify potential romantic partners. Sniffing Out DNA […]
Energy Transfer Loss
Hot And Cold The Sterling engine is an interesting example of many clever ways to transform energy into different forms. It takes the differential in two chambers of two different temperatures and transforms that into kinetic energy. There’s an interesting inventor that used a similar technique with a bicycle. Not So Nice […]
Thought Juggling
Trick Photography There is a few interesting videos matching the frames per second to a propeller on a plane. This makes it look like the plane is flying without the propellers moving. There are plenty of videos like this, where people purposely manipulate the recording process to create some interesting effects. Metronome […]
Peripheral Resonance
No Look Pass Way back in the day, Magic Johnson was famous for his no look pass. He would toss the ball seemingly behind him, but then one of his teammates would show up at just the right time. If you looked carefully whenever he did this, you could see his eyes get […]
Hypnotic Massage Technique
Collapsing Anchors A very common technique for quitting smoking is a technique using anchors. Over several different sessions with a hypnotist, the hypnotist will connect positive anchors to non smoking behavior, and negative anchors to smoking behavior. So when the client sees positive things on a daily basis, those good feelings will be […]
Highway Hypnosis Origins
How’d I Get Here? The most common form of hypnosis is highway hypnosis. You get in your car, intending to drive to your destination, and next thing you know you’re already there. You forgot everything that happened on the way. Classic Recipe https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr02Loop.mp4 One of the criteria of a good movie is […]
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